Beauty standards imposed by society often close doors to many opportunities. Everyone shines. From a project on Instagram, to a modeling agency, this is how the Italian was born L'Imperfetta.
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The project founded the modeling agency that has a casting call filled with more than 140 models. There, no one is stereotyped: real women, people of the most diverse ages, sizes and with disabilities, but also with other medical conditions such as vitiligo, or without a limb.
fashion week
If, on the one hand, we have an inclusive agency that respects all types of bodies, on the other, we have the main fashion weeks in the world, that have happened in recent weeks in New York, Milan, London and Paris. The extreme thinness on the catwalks raised an alert: the comeback of the 90s, that old 'return of those who weren't'.
In the 1990s, the world went through a major turning point regarding bodies, and being thin was awesome. This has created an epidemic of eating disorders – in most cases in teenagers. The ideal, thin body was easily linked to bulimia and anorexia. The demands were gigantic, and you had to be thin to be beautiful and fashionable.
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Last month, the fashion director of The New York Times, Vanessa Friedman, published a tweet when he was at a parade: “Even I was distracted by the extreme thinness of many of the models in the fashion show. Jason Wu".
This sparked a flood of comments, and she decided to clarify later.
In another tweet, Friedman pointed out: “I've been through a lot of eating disorders in my life, as have a lot of naturally thin people, and the difference between the two isn't hard to recognize. I can say that at least two of the models fall into this category. The goal was not to shame the models, but to draw attention to the issue. I truly believe it's time for fashion to reflect the entire clothing-wearing population, across race, gender, size and age.. "
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As inclusive and respectful as modeling agencies may be, the catwalks still set trends. In recent years, it has become clear how much this niche is also a health issue.
@curtonews In recent days, we have had the most important fashion weeks in the world. An alert came on: excessive thinness.
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